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Prosodic Morphology 1986, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince
Prosodic Morphology 1986, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
This work has circulated in manuscript form since October, 1986. Its basic contents were first presented at WCCFL 3 in spring, 1986 to an audience that was not devoid of convinced believers in the C and the V. It has been cited variously as McCarthy & Prince 1986, M&P forthcoming, and even (optimistically) M&P in press.
Many of the proposals made here have been revised, generalized, or superseded in subsequent work (see the bibliography below, p. 84), including a book ms. of nearly the same title by exactly the same authors. Junko Itô and Armin Mester have suggested to us …
Remarks On Phonological Opacity In Optimality Theory, John J. Mccarthy
Remarks On Phonological Opacity In Optimality Theory, John J. Mccarthy
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
In these remarks, I have examined the problem of phonological opacity for theories without serial ordering of rules, focusing on Optimality Theory. I have argued in favor of extending a correspondence-based approach to faithfulness to the statement of phonological markedness constraints. The core of the proposal is separate specification of the levels at which featural, adjacency, and linear order conditions must be met. I have compared this approach to two others, noting many similarities and a few differences: the structural approach adopted in Prince and Smolensky (1993) and most other OT work, and the Two-Level or Cognitive Phonology of Koskenniemi …
Where Have All The Ideophones Gone? The Death Of A Word Category In Zulu, George Tucker Childs
Where Have All The Ideophones Gone? The Death Of A Word Category In Zulu, George Tucker Childs
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
The first step in the discussion is to demonstrate that ideophones constitute a word class, a relatively uncontroversial claim for Southern Bantu. The second is to show that native speakers of Zulu do not share equal knowledge of ideophones and how this knowledge correlates with social factors. Measured knowledge of ideophones is evaluated against the social factors of age, sex, education, residence patterns, and rusticity, a parameter to be elaborated below. The conclusion is that just as for pidgins and creoles (Childs 1994) the knowledge and use of ideophones serves as a reliable barometer for language typing and language change, …